Improvement in carriage-tops



J.-H. GIBSON.

Carriage-Top. N0. 163,178, vPatented May1,1875.

UNITED STATES AT .i ,i

JACOB H. GIBSON, OF SPRINGFIELD, ASSIGNOB TO WILLIAM J. PHELPS, OF SAMEPLAGE, AND WILLARD l?. ABEBNETHY, OF NORTHAMPTON,

MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARRIAGE-TOPS.

Sptcication forming part of Letters Patent No. 163,178, dated May l1,1875 ;v application led March 26, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAcoB H. GIBSON, of Springfield, in the State ofMassachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Oarriages;and that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof,reference being had to the accompanying drawings making a part of thisspecification, and to the.

letters of reference marked thereon, in which- Figure I is a perspectiveview of my invention applied to a carriage-canopy. Fig. II is aperspective view of the socket having recesses therein to hold thecurved bar, and Fig. III is a side view of a carriage having myinvention applied thereto. y

My invention relates to an adjustable canopy for carriages, its objectbeing to support the canopy in such manner that it may hereadilyadjusted to any desired an gie, to shield the occupant of thecarriage from the rays of the sun; and to this end my invention consistsof a socket and pivot operating therein, made in connection with acurved bar, upon which is adjusted at any desired point, by means of aset-screw, a slide, which is made fast to the canopythe said curved barbeing connected to a standard or support attached to the carriage.

In the drawings, A represents a support of any desired form, andattached to the carriage, preferably, at the back; and at the upper endof this support is made a socket, B, having a hoie,f, therein, intowhich is inserted the threaded end lt of the bar d. This end of the baris bent at i', forming nearly a right angle with the main part of thebar, and this main portion of the bar is curved, its outer end beinginclined downward, as shown in Fig. I. Upon this curved bar is arrangedto slide the piece b, provided with a set-screw, c, and secured to theinside of the canopy O.

The operation of my inventionis as follows: At about midday, when thesun is high, the curved bar d may be fixed, by the thumbscrew e, in aposition extending lengthwise the carriage, as shown in Fig. III; andthe slide b, attached tothe canopy, is moved back nearly or quite to thesocket B, until the canopy O is in nearly a horizontal position, andthere sccured by the set-screw c; but earlier or later in the day, whenthe sun is lower, the curved bar d is swung upon its pivot in the socketB into the desired position, and the slide b is moved more toward theouter end of the curved bar d, and the farther it is moved toward theend the more the canopy is inclined from its horizontal position. Whenmoved to the desired position toward the end of the curved bar, toeffectually shield the occupant of the carriage from the sun, it issecured by the set-screw o.

In some cases the grooves or recesses a are made in the socket, and thepart i of the curved bar d is made of acorrespondin g form to fit intosaid recesses a, so that the bar d may be held in its position by thatmeans; but, ordinarily, I prefer to use the setscrew, and so clamp it inplace.

It is evident that the socket and its pivot may be reversed withoutdeparting from the invention in the least-that is to say, the socket Bmay be made upon the curved bar d, and the end of the support A be bentupward to form the pivot, the socket then iittin g down upon the pivot,in which case the curved bar d will swing around upon its pivot asbefore.

lt will thus be seen that the canopy having this invention applied isgiven the greatest scope in its movements, so as to give a perfect andentire protection from the sun 5 and when not required it may be easilyand quickly detached either by removing the pivot from the socket, or byremoving the support A from the carriage. y

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is- Thecombination of the support A, the socket and Apivot joint B, the curvedbar d, the slide b, provided with its set-screw c, and the canopy O, allforming an attachment to a carriage, substantially as described.

JACOB H. GIBSON.

Witnesses:

T. A. CURTIS, C. E. BUGKLAND.

